Mac OS X market share surges 32% in one year

Subject: Mac OS X market share surges 32% in one year July 4th 2008, 8:17 am

Vista grows by 256% in the same period, but Windows is down overall

July 2, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc.'s operating system market share has increased by nearly 32% in the last year, according to data collected by an Internet metrics company.

Last month, Apple's Mac OS X accounted for 7.94% of the operating systems powering computers that accessed the 40,000 Web sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company reported yesterday. A year ago, Mac OS X's usage share stood at 6.03%.

Also showing gains in June were Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista and Linux, which climbed 8% and 18%, respectively, to end the month accounting for 16.14% and 0.88% of the online operating system market.

Those gains came at the expense of Windows XP, and to a lesser extent, Windows 2000. Net Applications' data showed that Windows XP's share dropped from 72.12% to 71.2%, a decline of nearly a full percentage point. Windows 2000, meanwhile, continued its long slide, dropping to 2.11% of the online operating system share during June.

Monday marked the first major retirement milestone of Windows XP as Microsoft stopped offering licenses to most big-name computer makers and halted sales of boxed copies to retailers.

While Windows Vista's 256% increase in market share over the last 12 months significantly outpaced Mac OS X's gains, Windows' overall June total was down 2.45 percentage points from the year before, indicating that Vista was replacing XP, not adding to Microsoft's share.

Net Applications' operating system share and trend data is available online.

Linux accounts for 0.88% of the online OS market, Mac is now at 7.94%, vista at 16.14% and 71.2% for Windows XP

Member From : NC, USA OS : OS X Leopard 10.5.4

It may take us a while, but it will get there eventually tongue

Regular Visitor From : Canada

This is not a true survey its just some computers that accessed websites, doesn't mean too much for the overall usage of an OS.

Either linux users dont go online or all mac users go online, eiher way, apples market share is growing